"Mummy....."?

[HeidiSomerset]

My 15 year old goddaughter starts every sentence addressed to her mother with "Mummy?" and waits for her mother to say "Yes" before saying whatever it was she wanted to say, even when there are only 3 of us in the room. She does it when the rest of the family is present and even when thre are other people in the room. I don't know if she does it in front of her friends.
I clearly remember my own mother telling me to stop doing that, although I can't remember how old I was when she did that.
As a godmother, I understand it's not my pace to say anything at all, but I'd just like to know if this normal at her age?
Any insignt appreciated.

My eldest calls me mummala these days.
My youngest calls me mum.
Which is a bit boring tbh 😁😁

My 16 yo also does this. It drives me nuts and I have been trying to stop it for ever. She is also ND so I wonder if that's why.

All my kids various ages I'm mummy and me and my adult siblings same for ours also

You sound like a lovely godmother - not!

DD is 19 and calls me mummy or alternatively mother if she’s in a bad mood. I shall be sure to tell her off next time she says it! How awful of her 🤣

Seriously, what is your issue? Not your child, doesn’t affect you. You have far too much time on your hands to be getting so wound up over absolute non-issues.

I call my mum mummy. I am 62 years old.i hope to be calling her that for any more years.

I was going to say this.

I don’t understand why you are interested though OP?

I called my mil mumsy, she loved it.
My sprog can call me anything he wants that's not rude or mother.
He used to call me mumma.
Maybe it's because her mother takes time to zone back in, because repetitive 'mum' kinda blurrs into white noise.

my mum is either mum or mother!! My dad is Father from the truth.

I think some people have misunderstood what I was asking about. There's nothing wrong with calling your mother "Mummy" That's not what I was talking about at all.

What I am asking about is the difference between:
"Mummy, have you seen my school bag?" and "Mummay (wait for 'yes' every time) have you seen my school bag"..... "Mummay, (yes) when are we going to the park?". Mummay...?Mummay? (YES!) Why can't I......" Every time in quick succession
Very small kids do this, I know,but I kind of thought most children pregress to simply prefacing a question with Mummy, rather than waiting for an answer every time on trivial matters.
Oh well, I guess I stand corrected

It may be her parents taught her to do that when she was younger and it's just stuck.
It's considered good manners to get someone's attention and then wait for their acknowledgement before continuing isn't it?

She may be subconsciously copying what her parents do to her.

Seems quite normal to me, unless she is interrupting a conversation. There are some requests that can only be answered by mother so makes sense to address her directly.

I don't think it sounds normal, I think it sounds really odd! And annoying

Maybe the mum has a habit of half listening so she waits to get her full attention so she doesn't need to repeat herself.

Does her mum ever ask her not to do it that you know of?

I don't think anyone misunderstood anything. You phrased your OP completely different to this one. Still isn't that weird though. Some families communicate differently than others. Do you have any children?

My children call me Mummy. All pre teens and teens. My mum hates it and so does my sibling because apparently Mummy is for when you are pre school. I don't listen, I don't mind what they call me.

No teenager round here who would call their mum mummy. It gets left behind at infant school. It is not cool at all to say mummy. DD sometimes calls me mam.

Mine does this and occasionally I’ll say ‘I’m right here darling’ because it is irritating.

Why are you asking though? Are you trying to find that your goddaughter is odd or their mother has brought her up oddly? That’s a bit off of you tbh.

@HeidiSomerset I get what you mean, my kids are younger than this and it drives me mad when they repeatedly say mummy and wait for a response… arrghh just say what you want to say!! As long as I’m not in the middle of speaking to someone else why do you need to wait for me to say ‘yes?’ Maybe it comes from school, I don’t know. It’s annoying though 😂 personally I do find it odd for a 15 year old to routinely use ‘mummy’ rather than ‘mum’. It’s not usual in my social circles but I guess it varies as some people here think nothing of it!

I always called my father Daddy until in his 80s he died. I swapped to calling my mother Ma as a joke that just stuck. I don't see why this should bother you.

I cringe at the use of mummy and daddy for anyone over the age of 10. But that’s just my northern upbringing I’m guessing . Presumably in parts of the uk this is normal .

It might well be regional. I'm in South Yorkshire and no child over the age of about 7 or 8 says mummy.

It's normal and I love hearing my teen DC say mummy.